Conquest of Dargeeda: Space Patrol (February 5, 1955)

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“Conquest of Dargeeda” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 5, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Buzz Corry and Happy Jack investigate a deserted scrap yard on Saturn, where they suspect agents of Shardu, a would-be emperor of the planet Dargeeda, are operating. A crane suddenly swings a huge electromagnet over their heads, and a disembodied voice in the control tower demands to know the location of Dargeeda and threatens to drop the metal on them. Shardu, meanwhile, plans to stage the return of a jeweled crown on Dargeeda and to use the crowd's reaction against his rivals. This is the Space Patrol series, and the episode's original air date was February 5, 1955.

Saturn City, a scrap metal yard on Saturn, and the capital of the planet Dargeeda

Characters: Buzz Corry, Happy Jack, Shardu, Bora Vane, Commander Torrey, Roger Kirkland

Listen for: The voice in the crane control tower demanding the location of Dargeeda, and Shardu's scheme to use the returned crown to stir up the crowd

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.